[ubuntu-mythtv] XvMC gone

[Ted Kulinski]

Mario, team,

 

I am another Mythbuntu 0.24 end user running older hardware that needs XvMC
to play HD content adequately.  I remain on Lucid (10.04).  After the
upgrade to 0.24, it took me a long time to determine that fixes27305 was the
reason XvMC stopped working.  I have studied the December exchange with Eloy
Paris about this matter and referenced documentation regarding alternatives
for users in this situation.  For myself, not being a debian developer or
professional IT programmer, I cannot see how to follow the advice about
implementing autobuilds locally.

 

So I was wondering, can anyone on the team help me identify alternatives to
have XvMC working again?  

 

1)  I upgraded from 0.231 to 0.24 after 11/20/10.  I have a drive image from
just before that and considered restoring it to be back to 0.231.  I believe
a disadvantage of doing that would be:  no easy way to restore my 0.24
database with recordings from after 11/20 to today to the 0.231 because the
database structure probably has changed.

 

2)  Try compiling 0.24 from source or using a version from the Ubuntu ppa if
there is one (but I would have to uninstall the mythbuntu version I
currently am using).  But I am doubtful about having the admin skills to get
compiling from source to work and expect having to repeat whatever
customization I have made to the installation.

 

3)  If someone was generous enough to put the advice below about
implementing autobuilds locally into specific instructions/procedure for
someone with the limited understanding I have, perhaps I would be able to
follow the advice already given (see below).

 

4)  I am hoping another alternative would be:  someone else out there (Eloy
Paris perhaps) has recompiled the .deb files as per the advice given below,
and might share their self-maintained version with me?  I would be very
happy exchanging the benefit of ongoing fixes for 0.24 to have the XvMC
working again.

 

Can anyone think of better alternatives or help in another way?

 

Thank you all in advance.  I really like the mythbuntu package a lot, but
buying new hardware is not an option for now.

 

Sincerely,

Ted Kulinski 

 

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> Just today i've finished verifying the reworked autobuilds that center

> around git.  Autobuilds now wraps around a build script that's included

> upstream at https://github.com/MythTV/packaging.  So you have a few

> options now.

> 

> 1) You can manually run that build script every so often to spit out debs

> 2) Cron just that build script

> 3) Cron a modified autobuilds that only builds for your specific distro

> version and only the fixes checkout.  If you do this, you'll want to

> modify autobuilds to spit out debs rather than source files, which

> should be a fairly minor change:

> #sed s/build-dsc.sh/build-debs.sh/ <http://build-dsc.sh/build-debs.sh/>

> build-mythtv.sh -i

> 

> I've updated the documentation we have about how to implement autobuilds

> locally at the developer's cheatsheet:

> 

> http://mythbuntu.org/wiki/developer-cheatsheet#Building

> That should hopefully get you running again.  Any changes you make to

> the bzr packaging or git source locally should automatically rebase when

> the script is called.

 

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